What’s on TV Saturday: ‘The Fall’ and ‘Pride and Prejudice and Zombies’

Who’s dead? No one but the victims, or so it seems, as “The Fall” returns. “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies” bloodies up Jane Austen’s classic as Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy battle the undead. And “48 Hours” examines a case cracked by a butt dial.

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THE FALLon Netflix. Season 2 of this British serial-killer thriller ended with its resident psychopath, Paul Spector (Jamie Dornan), bleeding out in the arms of Stella Gibson, Gillian Anderson’s chilly, enigmatic police investigator, brought in to ignite a stalled murder case in Belfast, Northern Ireland. But is he truly dead? Of course not — but he might as well be as the third and final season begins with a mortally wounded Spector being prepped for surgery. Now the creator of the series, Allan Cubitt, “needs to move the story forward another six hours with his killer caught and clinging to life,” Mike Hale wrote in The New York Times. “My advice: Keep an eye on the nurse who fits Spector’s victim profile.”

What’s on TV

PRIDE AND PREJUDICE AND ZOMBIES (2016) 9 p.m. on Starz. Jane Austen’s classic is updated by way of Seth Grahame-Smith’s 2009 novel, which arms Elizabeth Bennett (Lily James) and her Mr. Darcy (Sam Riley) with wordy barbs and deadly weapons as they fend off some flesh-eating undead. Alas, despite appealing actors, handsome drawing rooms and impressive estates, “the story’s lone joke and its grinding literalness grow dull,” Manohla Dargis wrote in The Times.

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Dakota Johnson and Jamie Dornan in “Fifty Shades of Grey.”CreditChuck Zlotnick/Universal Pictures and Focus Features

FIFTY SHADES OF GREY (2015) 9 p.m. on MoreMax. For more of Jamie Dornan, check him out as Christian Grey, that kinky billionaire bachelor in Sam Taylor-Johnson’s adaptation of the E. L. James book that started tens of millions of wine-soaked fantasies. Dakota Johnson plays Anastasia Steele, his sort-of-willing supplicant. So pop the cork already. “‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ might not be a good movie — O.K., it’s a terrible movie,” A. O. Scott wrote in The Times, “but it might nonetheless be a movie that feels good to see, whether you squirm or giggle or roll your eyes or just sit still and take your punishment.”

48 HOURS10 p.m. on CBS. After visiting her former husband, a young Tennessee mother and schoolteacher vanished. A breakthrough came a year later, when her ex butt dialed 911 on his cellphone, and an operator recorded him talking about the case. In her first report for “48 Hours,” the CBS News correspondent Michelle Miller investigates the disappearance of Shelley Mook.

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Megan Fox in “Jennifer’s Body.”CreditDoane Gregory/20th Century Fox

JENNIFER’S BODY (2009) midnight on MTV. Megan Fox’s Jennifer is a dream girl, the kind other girls envy and all the boys want — at least before she’s transformed into a succubus by a run-in with an indie-rock band, and those same young men start dying in droves. This “bloody high school demonic-possession, serial-killer comedy,” written by Diablo Cody and directed by Karyn Kusama, “is an unholy mess,” A. O. Scott wrote in The Times. He meant that as a compliment, he added.